You Should Play Gang Beasts

Chaos is something that’s hard to capture. I’m not talking about the primaeval god here either, the sassy one who tells you not to talk in Hades, I’m talking about the general state. Chaos is, well, chaotic. So, building a game around that and making it playable isn’t an easy thing to manage. Fall Guys does it pretty well thanks to lots of players and some entertaining physics, but I don’t think any game has mastered this specific style of gameplay better than Gang Beasts.

Gang Beasts is a game where you have to master a control scheme that’s actually quite easy to understand, but nearly impossible to control. You take control of a gigantic sentient marshmallow in a dog/cat/dinosaur/politician suit, and your aim is to be the last one standing atop a Ferris wheel, some moving trucks, or a blimp.  That should, quite rightly, sound utterly absurd to you, but it actually gets far sillier once you get into the game.

It’s hard to explain how a control scheme that very much works is hard to deal with, but it is. All of the buttons do indeed do exactly what they’re meant to, and you can technically use them to scale the sides of buildings like a goofy Spider-Man. However, you’re far more likely to mess something up and accidentally jump off of the edge of a building while holding onto your friend who has been knocked out by accident. You should be completely sold on the game by now, so I’m just going to leave it at that.